Here Is Your "Existential" List, Bro

This week, while embracing the conspirators who sponsored Lee Harvey Oswald in his assassination of President John F. Kennedy, Obama  stated that even though they have free rein in Europe, there is no "'EXISTENTIAL"  threat  from these people for U.S. citizens in America. 

Well, here is some enlightenment on that point:

1. We KNOW what the word "existential"  means.

2. Here is a list  of  the "existential" fatalities in the USA brought about by  devotees of the "Religion of Peace", Islam, 
NOT including Sirhan Sirhan's murder of Robert F. Kennedy :

Date Country City Killed Injured Description 1972.04.14 USA New York, NY 1 3 Ten members of a local mosque phone in a false alarm and then ambush responding officers, killing one. 1973.01.19 USA Brooklyn, NY 1 1 Muslim extremists rob a sporting goods store for weapons, gunning down a police officer who responds to the alarm. 1973.07.01 USA Bethesda, MD 1 0 An Israeli diplomat is gunned down in his driveway by Palestinian terrorists. 1973.07.18 USA Washington, DC 8 2 Nation of Islam members shoot seven members of a family to death in cold blood, including four children. A defendant in the case is later murdered in prison on orders from Elijah Muhammad. 1973.10.19 USA Oakland, CA 1 1 Nation of Islam terrorists kidnap a couple and nearly decapitate the man, while raping and leaving the woman for dead. 1973.10.29 USA Berkeley, CA 1 0 A woman is shot repeatedly in the face by Nation of Islam terrorists. 1973.11.25 USA Oakland, CA 1 0 A grocer is killed in his store by Nation of Islam terrorists. 1973.12.11 USA Oakland, CA 1 0 A man is killed by Nation of Islam terrorists while using a phone booth. 1973.12.13 USA Oakland, CA 1 0 A woman is shot to death on the sidewalk by Nation of Islam terrorists. 1973.12.20 USA Oakland, CA 1 0 Nation of Islam terrorists gun down an 81-year-old janitor. 1973.12.22 USA Oakland, CA 2 0 Nation of Islam terrorist kills two people in separate attacks on the same day. 1973.12.24 USA Oakland, CA 1 0 A man is kidnapped, tortured and decapitated by Nation of Islam terrorists. 1974.01.24 USA Oakland, CA 4 1 Five vicious shooting attacks by Nation of Islam terrorists leave three people dead and one paralyzed for life. Three of the victims were women. 1974.04.01 USA Oakland, CA 1 1 A Nation of Islam terrorist shoots at two Salvation Army members, killing a man and injuring a woman. 1974.04.16 USA Ingleside, CA 1 0 A man is killed while helping a friend move by Nation of Islam terrorists. 1977.03.09 USA Washington, DC 1 1 Hanifi Muslims storm three buildings including a B'nai B'rith to hold 134 people hostage. At least two innocents were shot and one died. 1980.07.22 USA Bethesda, MD 1 0 A political dissident is shot and killed in front of his home by an Iranian agent who was an American convert to Islam. 1980.08.31 USA Savou, IL 2 0 An Iranian student guns down his next-door neighbors, a husband and wife. 1989.11.06 USA St. Louis, MO 1 0 A 17-year-old girl is stabbed to death by her parents for bringing 'dishonor' to their family by dating an 'infidel' African-American. 1990.01.31 USA Tuscon, AZ 1 0 A Sunni cleric is assassinated in front of a Tuscon mosque after declaring that two verses of the Qur'an were invalid. 1990.11.05 USA New York City, NY 1 0 An Israeli rabbi is shot to death by a Muslim attacker at a hotel. 1993.01.25 USA Langley, VA 2 3 A Pakistani with Mujahideen ties guns down two CIA agents outside of the headquarters. 1993.02.26 USA New York, NY 6 1040 Islamic terrorists detonate a massive truck bomb under the World Trade Center, killing six people and injuring over 1,000 in an effort to collapse the towers. 1994.03.01 USA Brooklyn, NY 1 0 A Muslim gunman targets a van packed with Jewish boys, killing a 16-year-old. 1997.03.23 USA New York, NY 1 6 A Palestinian leaves an anti-Jewish suicide note behind and travels to the top of the Empire State building where he shoot seven people in a Fedayeen attack. 1997.04.03 USA Lompoc, CA 1 0 A prison guard is stabbed to death by a radical Muslim. 2000.03.17 USA Atlanta, GA 1 1 A local imam and Muslim spiritual leader guns down a deputy sheriff and injures his partner. 2001.09.11 USA New York, NY 2752 251 Islamic hijackers steer two planes packed with fuel and passengers into the World Trade Center, killing hundreds on impact and eventually killing thousands when the towers collapsed. At least 200 are seriously injured. 2001.09.11 USA Washington, DC 184 53 Nearly 200 people are killed when Islamic hijackers steer a plane full of people into the Pentagon. 2001.09.11 USA Shanksville, PA 40 0 Forty passengers are killed after Islamic radicals hijack the plane in an attempt to steer it into the U.S. Capitol building. 2002.03.19 USA Tuscon, AZ 1 0 A 60-year-old man is gunned down by Muslim snipers on a golf course. 2002.05.27 USA Denton, TX 1 0 Muslim snipers kill a man as he works in his yard. 2002.07.04 USA Los Angeles, CA 2 0 Muslim man pulls out a gun at the counter of an Israeli airline and kills two people. 2002.09.21 USA Atlanta, GA 1 0 Muslim terrorists gun down an employee at a liquor store. 2002.09.21 USA Montgomery, AL 1 1 Muslim snipers shoot two women, killing one. 2002.09.23 USA Baton Rouge, LA 1 0 A Korean mother is shot in the back by Muslim snipers. 2002.10.02 USA Wheaton, MD 1 0 Muslim snipers gun down a program analyst in a store parking lot. 2002.10.03 USA Montgomery County, MD 5 0 Muslim snipers kill three men and two women in separate attacks over a 15-hour period. 2002.10.09 USA Manassas, VA 1 1 A man is killed by Muslim snipers while pumping gas two days after a 13-year-old is wounded by the same team. 2002.10.11 USA Fredericksburg, VA 1 0 Another man is killed by Muslim snipers while pumping gas. 2002.10.14 USA Arlington, VA 1 0 A woman is killed by Muslim snipers in a Home Depot parking lot. 2002.10.22 USA Aspen Hill, MD 1 0 A bus driver is killed by Muslim snipers. 2003.08.06 USA Houston, TX 1 0 After undergoing a 'religious revival', a Saudi college student slashes the throat of a Jewish student with a 4" butterfly knife, nearly decapitating the young man. 2004.04.15 USA Scottsville, NY 1 2 In an honor killing, a Muslim father kills his wife and attacks his two daughters with a knife and hammer because he feared that they had been sexually molested. 2006.06.16 USA Baltimore, MD 1 0 A 62-year-old Jewish moviegoer is shot to death by a Muslim medical student in an unprovoked terror attack. 2006.06.25 USA Denver, CO 1 5 Saying that it was 'Allah's choice', a Muslim shoots four of his co-workers and a police officer. 2006.07.28 USA Seattle, WA 1 5 An 'angry' Muslim-American uses a young girl as hostage to enter a local Jewish center, where he shoots six women, one of whom dies. 2008.01.01 USA Irving, TX 2 0 A Muslim immigrant shoots his two daughters to death on concerns about their 'Western' lifestyle. 2008.07.06 USA Jonesboro, GA 1 0 A devout Muslim strangles his 25-year-old daughter in an honor killing. 2009.02.12 USA Buffalo, NY 1 0 The founder of a Muslim TV station beheads his wife in the hallway for seeking a divorce. 2009.04.12 USA Phoenix, AZ 2 0 A man shoots his brother-in-law and another man to death after finding out that they visited a strip club, in contradiction to Islamic values. 2009.06.01 USA Little Rock, AR 1 1 A Muslim shoots a local soldier to death inside a recruiting center explicitly in the name of Allah. 2009.11.02 USA Glendale, AZ 1 1 A woman dies from injuries suffered when her father runs her down with a car for being too 'Westernized.' (10-20-09) 2009.11.05 USA Ft. Hood, TX 13 31 A Muslim psychiatrist guns down thirteen unarmed soldiers while yelling praises to Allah. 2009.12.04 USA Binghamton, NY 1 0 A non-Muslim Islamic studies professor is stabbed to death by a Muslim grad student in revenge for 'persecuted' Muslims. 2010.04.14 USA Marquette Park, IL 5 2 After quarrelling with his wife over Islamic dress, a Muslim convert shoots his family members to 'take them back to Allah' and out of the 'world of sinners'. 2011.04.30 USA Warren, MI 1 0 A 20-year-old woman is shot in the head by her stepfather for not adhering to Islamic practices. 2011.09.11 USA Waltham, MA 3 0 Three Jewish men have their throats slashed by Muslim terrorists. 2012.01.15 USA Houston, TX 1 0 A 30-year-old Christian convert is shot to death by a devout Muslim for helping to convert his daughter. 2012.11.12 USA Houston, TX 1 0 A 28-year-old American man is shot to death by a conservative Muslim over an alleged role in converting a woman to Christianity. 2013.02.07 USA Buena Vista, NJ 2 0 A Muslim targets and beheads two Christian Coptic immigrants. 2013.03.24 USA Ashtabula, OH 1 0 A Muslim convert walks into a church service with a Quran and guns down his Christian father while praising Allah. 2013.04.15 USA Boston, MA 3 264 Foreign-born Muslims describing themselves as 'very religious' detonate two bombs packed with ball bearings at the Boston Marathon, killing three people and causing several more to lose limbs. 2013.04.19 USA Boston, MA 1 1 Jihadists gun down a university police officer sitting in his car. 2013.08.04 USA Richmond, CA 1 0 A convert "on a mission from Allah" stabs a store clerk to death. 2014.03.06 USA Port Bolivar, TX 2 0 A Muslim man shoots his lesbian daughter and her lover to death and leaves a copy of the Quran open to a page condemning homosexuality. 2014.04.27 USA Skyway, WA 1 0 A 30-year-old man is murdered by a Muslim fanatic. 2014.06.01 USA Seattle, WA 2 0 Two homosexuals are murdered by an Islamic extremist. 2014.06.25 USA West Orange, NJ 1 0 A 19-year-old college student is shot to death 'in revenge' for Muslim deaths overseas. 2014.09.25 USA Moore, OK 1 1 A Sharia advocate beheads a woman after calling for Islamic terror and posting an Islamist beheading photo. 2014.12.18 USA Morganton, NC 1 0 A 74-year-old man is shot several times in the head by a 'radicalized' ISIS supporter. 2015.07.16 USA Chattanooga, TN 5 2 A 'devout Muslim' stages a suicide attack on a recruiting center at a strip mall and a naval center which leaves five dead. 2015.12.02 USA San Bernardino, CA 14 17 A 'very religious' Muslim shoots up a Christmas party with his wife, leaving fourteen dead.

Readers who wish to see the original information may go to http://www.religionofpeace.com.To whom we are eternally grateful !

Our Ghost Martyrs

Probably the main things we should have firm in mind are: 

(1) That the Benghazi massacre took place  on the anniversary of the World Trade Center catastrophic attack, that is, on September 11, 2012.... AND...

(2) That this date was less than two months before the election day that returned Barack Hussein Obama to the White House.

Benghazi was a fatal Statecraft failure and reporting it honestly and factually could have prompted harsh judgment from the U.S. electorate.

At 4:00 PM Washington time (11 p.m. in Benghazi) Obama and VP Joe Biden along with Defense secretary Leon Panetta experienced the Benghazi attack on DoD hook-up, from Drones hovering over the embattled compound in “real-time”. They were in touch with Secretary of State Hillary R. Clinton.

Yet, despite the fact that Ambassador Chris Stevens, Sean Smith, Glen Doherty and Tyrone Woods died in the burning destruction of the temporary “consulate”, Ms Clinton announced proudly this past weekend:

“We did not lose one person in Libya !”

My question is: What do these Hoity-Toity elite charlatans think we are?  Do they lump us in the garbage bin with the 20% sure-fire-voting illiterate great unwashed ? Are we considered  just  low info turnipbrained dullards?

Even after this tragedy, for nearly a week, all these people named above plus an automaton dummy named Susan Rice, claimed this murderous, brutally bloody attack was “just revenge” for a cartoon that allegedly left a stain on the prophet Mohammed.  Rice took a special occasion at the United Nations General Assembly to give vent to this apostatic lie.

And now in the heat of another presidential election, the former Secretary of State would apparently have us believe she has forgotten the four slain Americans.

Since we KNOW that all Defense department tape and film is eternally redundant, there is evidence aplenty in the recordings from the drones, which had to be onsite before the attack, because they were supplied to the “consulate” from Crete, about three hours distant.

As candidate the former Secretary of State has been visibly shaken physically by a series of coughing paroxysms that she cannot shake.

One wonders, if in  her bronchial expectorations, she has spit out a bit of brain matter here and there . That is certainly the kindest face to put on this performance.

As a matter of fact I wonder if even Leon Panetta knows how many Americans died in the Libya fiasco. 

Congressman Trey Gowdy’s committee is in “ongoing investigation” mode.  Wonder if he has his eye on accessing those Drone tapes.

It's always “Tapes” and “gaps”, isn't it ?  There was a poem about "the little man who wasn't THERE":

"I saw him standing on the stair
The Little man who wasn;t there.
 He was't thhere again todayu...
I wish that he would go away...."

Does she ever see Chris Stevens ?...The other men ?

Peril to Shun History

South Dakota, with a really significant American Indian population, ended the teaching of the first hundred years of American history at the beginning of this school year, through its State Board of Education.

There were hearings, but no legislation.

The idea seems to be, if we don't talk about it, then it never happened.

In Dearborn Michigan, where Muslims are significant minority of the population, the truth of the Holocaust that killed millions of Jews, Roman Catholics, Gypsies and homosexuals... Is no longer mentioned or even acknowledged as a historical event in any public education in that city. In Dearborn Michigan, for school attendees K-12, there WERE NO gas chambers, mass shootings, or
lime pits.

Just as the grisly history of  cannibalism, torture and massacre by both European Americans and native Indian Americans is terra non grata for social science teachers in South Dakota.

The ultimate result of the deterioration in the way Americans look at what happened before they were born is... Vacuous Ignorance.

In Washington DC, already, the people who live there do not know where the city got its name. CLICK HERE FOR EVIDENCE

It would be easy just to yawn and discard this blog in file 13 because it is cobbled together by a nonagenarian admittedly clinging to relevance through agile pomposities.

But if you didn't have the thoughts and tales, the laughter and tears... And the lessons from former generations in your family, your intellect and your spirit would be husks of dusty nothingness. Only the fool who thinks he will never make a mistake (and thus never learn)  could believe that trashing all our yesterdays  in a vain attempt to escape the basic error and fallibility that makes humans the learning machines and the conscious, constant mental and spiritual revolutionaries  that make all History , and burnish it with endless capacity for invention and renewal.

Surely if we turn our back on the lessons inherent in our ancestors' pitfalls and the glory of their endurance we are sentencing all our offspring and theirs to a Hell not dreamed of by Dante Allighieri or any of his vapid imitators.

Child Abuse

Is it permissible to comment on child abuse nowadays ?

Our average parent or grandparent is usually throttled, muted or trashed by educationoids because we did not get a license from a hallowed “teachers indoctrination unit-college” no matter what level of postgraduate achievement we have.

The child abuse to which  I have reference is the sort perpetrated by the president of the United States when he excuses his “swapping” of a murderous terrorist crew for a turncoat traitor by saying that George Washington, Abraham Lincoln and Franklin Roosevelt all swapped prisoners of war because that’s what happens after a war is over.

Actually, George Washington was not elected president of the United States until five years after the Revolutionary war ended.

Abraham Lincoln was martyred before the end of the Civil War and FDR had his fatal stroke before the end of World War II— in either theater !

This lecture to media bootlickers from an erstwhile “constitutional lawyer” was never challenged at the time it was delivered.

But nevertheless, many defenseless underage, not-yet-citizens will go to their graves believing this drivel  and even argue that it is “delivered truth”.

A more recent profanation was delivered by a presidential candidate, while discussing gun-control, when she said that our  Constitution guarantees each one of us “Life, Liberty and the Pursuit of Happiness”!

FOR STORY CLICK HERE

But those words are from the Declaration of Independence, which came nearly 8 years before the Constitution and Bill of Rights were ratified.

Then, too, the Declaration was an enumeration of those gifts of God to mankind which the American patriots believed to be threaten by the British monarchy.

On the other hand, the Constitution was an illumination of structures and personal rights guaranteed by those governmental structures.  These rights are, as we all know now, Civil in nature, not “natural” or bestowed by a Creator.

It is at least one citizen’s understanding that it is almost criminal— whether by intentional obfuscation or by nescience or ignorance, to mislead even the smallest Town Hall audience on such salient truth.

But I guess that’s all we can expect from a lawyer who was fired from her first government job for unethical misconduct.

When...O when will the degradation of our brilliant National  History end ?

Hurt Feelings

The educationoids are as busy as bees and daughters and sons of bees with their Political Correctness onslaught.

In a Delaware school district, some subversive genius mailed out a "Hurt Feelings" Scorecard. Your fish wrapper or local "reality TV" deprived you of it so here it is: 

 CLICK HERE FOR STORY AND CHART

But the PC powers that be -- a group whose greatest fear is that somewhere someone is happily laughing at them-- scurried to recall and neutralize the effect of the hilarious document.  That did not happen.

Meanwhile, out West in Portland Oregon the Catholic University of Portland issued an order that all 4,000 students and faculty must report " any discomfort" to the University police office. This will probably  spill over ibto the surrounding countryside, Oregon being what it is--- the way it is... and you can look for it in some institution near you sometime during 2016.


The First Amendment to the Constitution of the United States is taking some big hits and is as inescapable as it is incremental that soon we will no longer be free to call each other "Dumb" or "Mean" or "Stingy" or "fool" or "stupid" or even "ugly".  

Many many years ago Casey Stangl brought his Yankees to Atlanta on the way back north from the grapefruit league. I have interviewed some of the team, I wrote a story in which I blasted a box seats fan who was heckling Elstom Howard. I called  the heckler "a Jerk". My then boss, sports editor Furman Bisher convinced me that there was no such thing as “a jerk” in the sports pages of the Atlanta Constitution!

 Who knew that Bisher was the vanguard of the PeeCee patterollers ?!

I’ve done a little scanning and searching of historical files, and I will admit that political correctness and a mouthful of Octagon / Lye soap might have kept Alexander Hamilton out of his fatal duel with Alan Burr, but I notice that Pope Francis shed his cloak of PeeCee speech to trash a prominent American from the other side of the Rio Grande River, so there are some very powerful people apparently, who do not share the sensibilities of some of our educationists.

We’ve seen for a long time that people running the colleges and universities in the United States are not properly tasked: they all ought to be either  teaching, or cleaning the quadrangles of debris. It is the proper role of the students in such places to question one another in bull sessions and confront professors in classrooms...Even in colorful language born of the greatest American tradition: words like “buffoon”, “dork”, “doofus”, “Honkie”, and the one most applied to me during my wild, young adulthood:  “N-word-Lover”.

Finally it is not unhealthy to recognize some words as coarse, ugly and unrepresentative. But let’s remind ourselves that our feelings cannot be “hurt” without our participation. It is never what another says that so stings our soul and hurts our heart. It is what we tell ourselves about ourslves relative to what they say that causes pain.  I’ve tried to teach young people who come within my orbit that if I called them a  paperclip, that would NOT  make them one !!

That’s the sort of thing we should be teaching. Not the nonsense of PeeCee.

Nature's God ?

Pathetic sophomoric journalism is a favorite hobby of mine, since I was a pathetic journalist once upon a time when I was 12 or 13. 

Now I find in one of the great publications that I read for 50 years, has hired numb-knots.

A presentation of that once great purveyor of scientific truth as well as honest inquiry, exhibits a photograph of one of  the great statues of the Buddha, Siddartha Gautama, on an Asian promontory.

Beneath it is an article which announces that the adoption and worship of omniscient and punitive gods by small nomadic groups, led to larger more complex and cooperative civilization. 

Well....Um....Yes.

But there IS no punitive or omniscient God to worship in Buddhism, which is largely based on the Noble Truth that  Gautama spoke when he stepped from the Bodhi Tree:

"To live is to crave. To crave is to suffer. Therefore only with an end to craving can there be an end to suffering...."

I know it is nasty of me, but I always see evildoers in the shadows. Therefore I think that the great magazine Nature has been hijacked by progressive 2016 politically-correct cutesies.

Otherwise, they certainly would have  pictured a cross or a line drawing of Moses and the tablets, wouldn't they ? Or maybe to be more stylish, a man in a black balaclava waving a black ISIS banner...

The whole point of the "study" being reported here was the SHOCKING  revelation that "fundamentalist" RELIGION was the spark that ignited the spread of cooperation and finally, civilization! 

But the first few paragraphs of the "report" were taken up with telling how people in isolated gulags on the globe exhibited more "honesty" and "fairness" if they believed in a deity that kept track of their tribulations and triumphs and fashioned retribution and reward accordingly.

Just about any overage runaway apostate who left Sunday school, or their role as an acolyte or their synagogue-based shul would have been glad to tell the "researchers" THAT.  All that travel experience to isolate 600 people in disparate "native" locations was a waste of money and time, in the name of "Science".

Still and all, it is gratifying to have another (obviously clueless) portion of the population aware that basic arithmetic, and mathematics, the creation of languages including conjugation of verbs and the flowering of metalwork, drawing, painting, music and dance, the Renaissance, Enlightenment and the Age of Reason and the Era of Space travel ---ALL  came about because mankind learned to obey "Natural Rules".

I don't know about you but I'll go to bed with a little more optimism and we should all sleep a little more soundly knowing that maybe several pseudo-agnostics  and naysayers have stumbled on Truth.

High Level Blind

Not many readers of this blog subscribe to any of the foreign newswires such as  Agence France-Presse, Xinhua or Al Jazeera, and our British and American conduits did not get the drivel to your local fishwrapper or leftwing talking-heads, so we will supply the words straight from the mouth of our Chief Doofus,  S-o-S John Kerry (He served in VietNam) prating nonsense in public in Europe:


At a conference in Rome, of coalition members allegedly tasked with fighting ISIS yesterday, US Secretary of State John Kerry said members of the terrorist organization " are not Muslims..." but, rather " apostates of Islam."

 “Daesh [ISIS] is in fact nothing more than a mixture of killers, of kidnappers, of criminals, of thugs, of adventurers, of smugglers and thieves,” Kerry said. “And they are also above all apostates, people who have hijacked a great religion and lie about its real meaning and lie about its purpose and deceive people in order to fight for their purposes.”

Puerile scribblers nowadays are prone to use hyphenated  explosions such as breath-taking and jaw-dropping.

I call these extraordinary  remarks vomit-gushing.

I Am sure these words were handed to Kerry by some pointy-headed insulated nincompoop who would probably be SHOCKED  to learn that the OTHER JFK was assassinated by a communist traitor, and that Islam has built its theoretical superstructure on the foundation of all the bad qualities mentioned by Mr. Doofus K, since the year  622 AD, beginning with the slaughters at Medina  and Mecca.

Thus we have, in a 24 hour "expanse" the US president stating that Mohammedanism "has always been an intimate part of America.." (A tacit lie unless you count in the defeat of all the Barbary Muslim Pirates by Stephen Decatur and his newly minted US Marines in the early 1800s). AND  the US chief diplomat dismissing the New Caliphate that is gobbling up most of Syria and Iraq as we sleep.

This is not the sort of thing that lends itself nicely to politicizing, but that is the direction that the people in office seem to have chosen. 

The GQ Score is the only thing in doubt !

Gullibility Quotient, of our people, that is.

Geezer ? Or Fogey ?

My 67-year-old son, Michael, leaned over my desk and heaved a great sigh.

“Daddy,” he announced, “I am now joining you in Geezerdom !”

I was shaken but not so much that I didn’t correct him archly: 

“ It’s GeezerHood, NOT “geezerdom” I said. “And it is really unsettling that the Li’l Feller that I taught to trout-fish is nearly bald with a goatee....”

My hilarity in discussing this was that of a jackass gnawing on barbwire, but after he took his departure, I did some “musing”.  Not real hard cogitation you know... Just some mind- flight.

So I had to accept my oldest son as a Geezer ! That makes me a Supra-Geezer, I guess, simply by dint of years. 

It was pleasant to realize that neither of us have rotted into old-fogeyness.  I maintain that what separates Geezers and old fogies is the fact that old fogies turn their heads away and even curse when they see the swimsuit issue of Sports Illustrated.  Geezers, on the other hand, vicariously bask in the sunshine of whatever exotic beach the ladies have chosen this February.

There are other lovable things about Geezers. Unlike fogies, they occasionally change their minds, and still believe they can teach a grandson (or great-granddaughter) how to drive a stick-shift silkily... Without stripping a single gear tooth.

A fogey will stomp out of a computer room in frustration while a Geezer will ask the young ones to show him one more time how to dissolve the bad guys–OR superimpose a banner of instruction over a photo. 

The Geezers usually have treasure troves of information that they dearly love  to share, especially if it will bridge the triple generation gap. Mike and I were talking about one of those little snippets just before he came up with  “Geezer” shock.

It involves finding an undisturbed backwater on a trout stream, very still, with some debris gathered or settled on its bottom. In this debris, there will be a number of  small sticks that look like they are glued together. But when you separate them carefully you find a small white worm encased in a sheath that joins the two sticks. This is the larva of a mayfly– or maybe another fly, waiting for metamorphosis into a winged insect that trout fishermen in all of Creation attempt to mimic with feathers, wool, and deer hair. We Geezers call the worm "Stick-Bait".

It is the keenest and most exciting form of “cheating” to tip off the hook of your Adams or Coachman, with this fat little worm.  It never fails to get a strike no matter how many variations you have failed with. (There is no guarantee of getting the trout into your creel, however.)

Purists-Astream, as I noted, view this   as “cheating”. But we, solid Geezers that we are, believe what the greatest of quarterbacks, Joe Montana once said:

“If you ain’t cheatin’, then you ain’t tryin’ !”

We in the Geezerhood only apply this to fishing, horseshoes and football. And in this sphere, as well as in most spiritual and romantic pursuits, Old Fogies are 100% losers.

Atheist Dawkins Concedes

We truly never understood the meaning of  "it's an ill wind indeed that blows no good" until we learned this morning that supreme foe of gods in general, and Christ in particular Richard Dawkins  had cried "Calf-Rope".

He was quoted by an interviewer as saying that only Christianity can now save the world from the darkest excesses of a blindly hating and death worshipping savagery that threatens every continent.

You can read the details  HERE !

But taken as an event, the Dawkins adoption of Christianity as a "Savior" of civilization would warm the heart of the 17th century French mathematician and philosopher Blaise Pascal, whose "Wager" is mostly familiar to those who spend some time discussing the efficacy--- or even the possibility--- of buttressing a belief in the Deity.

Blaise Pascal lived to be less than 50 but in the 17th century he challenged all his contemporaries with mathematical discoveries and the well articulated and brilliantly faceted logic of his "Pensees" (Thoughts). 

Pascal's Wager is probably his most famous contribution to apologetic philosophy. 

He simply said that we have a choice, similar to tossing a coin in a "heads / tails" game.

If we choose not to believe, we have nothing to look forward to except the meager assembly of short-lived earthly trinkets and 
questionable reputations, limited and finite.

But if we choose to believe, to use faith to measure the Infinite and follow the commandments of a faith, then even if that faith turns out to be without reason, all we have lost is evil while we gained the ultimate structured beneficent life. Even Donald J Trump would call that an Artful Deal.

We have watched a lot of people come  and go since 1925.  And despite all the haughty  smears and snears of the  elusive nonbelievers, we have yet to see anything more delightful to watch than an agnostic or atheist reduced to shuffling soles  and sudden uncertainty as they grasp for the Wager of Blaise Pascal.

Let us all welcome frere Darkins to his new comfort. May many follow him.

Clean Up Your Shriek

One of the most disgusting things about living halfway into the second decade of the third millennium is the widespread sovereignty of ignorance.

On Wednesday a senior editor for a defunct newsweekly scampered to delete his twisted adolescent screed on Twitter to the effect that Sen. Ted Cruz and all of his followers are Nazis.

There’s a lot of that going around. People who were not even born in 1940 or  taught anything seminal about World War II in school, who know nothing about the National Socialist German Workers Party of the 1930s, glibly go about spewing that diagnosis of Nazism, clueless to the meaning of the word.

It’s a monkey-see-monkey-do thing. Anybody to the right of Earl Warren must be a Nazi, they figure, for some reason— having no idea that Nazism was the extreme brand of  collectivist insanity, it’s admitted most hated rival, Russian communism (an older more entrenched hypnotic promise of pie-in-the-sky.)  (It’s a lie !)

Do these puny- headed twits grasp that the partnership between the Nazis and the Reds before World War II erupted was the well-planned “safe house” interlude during which the German Nazis “got ready” for Gotterdammerung ? That is, the pause during which the timetable was set  for killing an as-yet-uncounted millions of Christians, homosexuals, Gypsies, academic intellectuals and Jews?

And yet these Frothy-mouthed  fantasists play with their favorite epithet “Nazi” to pin it on Donald J Trump, Sen. Ted Cruz, Ron Paul and even Ms Carly Fiorina.  Now, we KNOW none of these mildly conservative standouts has called for nationalization of industry, or an end  to collective bargaining by unions... Or the burning of books, or "rendering" of corpses for soap, OR the fashioning of lampshades  from  children's skin. 

If people were paying attention, there would be 1000 petitions, each  with more than 100,000 signatures calling for sanctions against these glossolalic lame brains.

This sort of thing (epidemic of casual ignorance) is becoming institutional.  

Some time ago, in greeting Syrian refugees a collection of Canadian child-Choristers  sang  a song to welcome  mostly Muslims  into their new country. 

After all of this was over, according to The American Thinker online, some inquisitive young scholar or journalist discovered that the song was a celebration of the slaughter of Jews.   

This sort of herd mentality, jumping before looking behavior is all right for the sidelines at a major collision of athletes.

But it just won’t DO as representation of a nation’s soul.

Or of a pygmy’s hateful envy and spite.

D A N C E !!!

We just completed a New Year's wish for our number one non-family confidant that seems now to be rather sterile and incompetent.

The "greeting" offered wishes and prayers for a "Renaissance" of common sense to replace the straitjacket of  "correctness" that plagues clarity of emotion and 
communication these days.

That sounds really fatuous and condescending  as one  reads it back out loud.

So, let us amend it.

How about:  "More dancing,  less shuffling and plodding in 2016 ?!!

There is, in the Encyclopaedia Britannica, if my memory is intact, the reproduction of carvings and drawings on an Algerian  wall  more than 10,000 years old, that shows many people dancing with the same attitudes and the same utilization of  artifact in their dance.

In case you care,  Wikipedia is very weak on "dance" and "dancing". But it is pretty clear that the North African area abutting the Mediterranean and the subcontinent of India are the first places that evidence dancing as an avocation of "early" populations.

Long before people had language, they danced to convey emotions and beliefs that were natural and, perforce, brought  forth song  and then language and  communicative cooperation.

Therefore nothing could be more human and faithful than to make 2016 a Dancing Year.

The song or melody can be supplied by the individual "heart"--- Spirit  or  imagination.

But, in the face of fear, anxiety or dilemma, Dancing really is a valid prescription. There is scriptural evidence aplenty that dancing including the use of bells and castanets proceeded from prehistory to the time of Abraham. In the fourth century, BCE, Aristotle delineated "Dance" in his Poetics.

Traditionally, celebratory dancing filled the Temple. The first thing that happens after marriage vows and the kiss is The Dance. In the synagogues of old, all the men danced with clasped hands. They still do. 

The Druids danced at Stonehenge. Egyptian  hieroglyphics show ceremonial as well as single person expression in the dance.

Dancing, in some societies, is still utilized as potent anti--Demon fare. There is no shortage of demons among the seven continents as we begin 2016.

Dance is freely available therapy and protection available anywhere anytime. One must have a certain amount of fortitude and devil-may-care goodwill to apply the balm of the "solo" dance.  But we have all seen the secretary do her terpsichorean best when she gets a raise. Similarly an Oklahoma cowboy does a single whoopp-de-doo  after staying glued on the back of a heaving bull.

The best places to really cut a figure are: the kitchen, the bath shower, the baseball dugout, center court at Wimbledon, American Idol finals, and commencement week at any high school or college.

So Dance, all you children ! 

But, don't stomp, whirl or leap to sounds of your ancient  Walkman or modern iPhone in the company of.… A Muslim friend.

It might cause "hurt feelings".  Centuries of Qu'ranic, Hadith and Sharia Law bans the use of musical instruments, song, or dancing by observant   Muslims.

Any twisting, shaking prancing or wiggling in Islam is reserved for seminaked slaves and a handful of devout  Sufi Dervishes who whirl in circles until they reach ecstatic oneness with a many-splendored, woozy climax.  

One can only understand the severity of this sanction if one had a hardshell Baptist, anti-dance  grandmother.

But in these parlous days, She would cut quite a figure, herself, to get some Serenity ! So, Dance ! 
  

Birthday Chords

This Christmas, we will share our two favorite Christmas poems. The first one has been called “wistful” and the second, “bitter”. They were created by two of America’s  most gifted purveyors of thought and passion. We prefer the appellation:  “POWERFUL”.


December 25

By W. H. Auden

...Once again
As in previous years we have seen the actual Vision and failed
To do more than entertain it as an agreeable
Possibility, once again we have sent Him away,
Begging though to remain His disobedient servant,
The promising child who cannot keep His word for long. 

~~~|||~~~

To Jesus on His Birthday

By Edna St. Vincent Millay (1892-1950)


For this your mother sweated in the cold,
For this you bled upon the bitter tree:
A yard of tinsel ribbon bought and sold;
A paper wreath; a day at home for me.
The merry bells ring out, the people kneel;
Up goes the man of God before the crowd;
With voice of honey and with eyes of steel
He drones your humble gospel to the proud.
Nobody listens. Less than the wind that blows
Are all your words to us you died to save.
O Prince of Peace! O Sharon's dewy Rose!
How mute you lie within your vaulted grave.
The stone the angel rolled away with tears
Is back upon your mouth these thousand years.

Cry "Fascism"!!! ...(Or Sumpthin...)

Frst it was goofy New York City Mayor Mike Bloomberg autocratically  banning the sale of "soda" carbonated drinks in the Big Apple.

Then it was Ms. Obama's  Calorie Cops, pushing kale and limp lettuce at Taco-toasting skool populations.

But now, in Massachusetts of all places, they have ( as all the left-wing and otherwise demented media types holler) CROSSED THE LINE !!!

In Worchester, public housing residents have been notified in a huge block-lettered missive that at least one person in a household must be either gainfully employed or be a full-time responsive student in a recognized learning facility, or...OR... Face expulsion from public housing!

Surely the author of this anti-Brave New World  threat will end up with chains and and anvils rusting on his extremities in the Charles River.

You may see the original story  H E R E !

This sort of  high-handed , ham-fisted treatment has been tried before by legislative giants  seeking to rid welfare rolls and public housing of drug addicts, dealers, loan sharks and sexual predators.

But usually some air-headed judge who has never read the Constitution or the first 10 amendments thereto, will step in and proclaim the sanctity of  anarchy, deviance  and perfidy pursued by  all citizens.

The idea that free housing is only for those people who go to school and / or work for their spending money, is almost as insurrectional and revolutionary as printing the truth in these Parlous days. 

We, who still practice the regimen, should all pray for the folks in Worcester --- that the housing official either recants or change jobs so he may live on, and that no one barters his next breath on any immediate compliance with the fiery do-or-die Dictum.

Give Us Honesty..Not a Lecture

I'll bet you missed it !

The first thing I saw on the Internet after Sunday night's bumbling from the Oval Office was a story that announced that  investigators have found 72 employees of the Department of Homeland Security who also appear on the no-fly anti-terror watchlist !

That is the kind of information that the president of the United States should be sharing with citizens, rather than scolding us for hurting the feelings of a congeries of people he trusts and we don't.

There are a couple of "approval" polls I look at every day. On the morning after this speech, the president's total approval plummeted five percentage points to -43. And this was from an outfit that usually begins every Monday morning by giving him a "clean slate"of  50% approval.

I can remember when after a president had a "chat" with the country, one could fairly hear  America Singing for a week or two.

Now it's more like  America Groaning  or America Sighing.

Political correctness, what ever it may be, cannot be hailed as a bastion of protection against people who arm themselves with machetes and automatic weapons ( despite laws that prohibit them) and proclaim God's endorsement of their mutilations  and beheadings.

It is difficult to believe that our president or his Attorney General, Loretta Lynch, has read the Qu'ran.

Two readers of this blog have asked what parts of the Qu'ran  are (in their word) "objectionable".   How about "bloody" ?

You can begin  HERE with this blog which lists most of the Suras and verse annotations that weave  the fabric of the so-called "radical" or "extreme" commands in the Book of Submission.

If you don't happen to have a Holy Q'an handy, there is an easy shortcut for perusing.  On the Internet, go to Robert Spencer's Jihad Watch website and search for "Blogging the Qu'ran", and just look up the Sura and verse.

As I end this screed, I learn  that our attorney general has reportedly "walked back" her stupid and illegal threat to prosecute any citizen who badmouths  a follower of Islam. 

La Lynch  has obviously no knowledge about the law or her duties which is just exactly what this whole government is about nowadays.

A Trump Trap Sprung ?

Any  old police reporter will tell you that no two witnesses to a crash or a felony in progress will tell the same story.

And though I am not convinced he will or should be nominated to vie for the US presidency. The Donald Trump stripped the lowlife arrogant media in this country naked to its soul  these past few days and rubbed their noses in "it".

Because I have two granddaughters in the New York City area, and because I knew people who lost friends in the 9 / 11  catastrophe, I couldn't understand why all these talking heads and newspaper youngsters were calling him a liar  when he pointed to the celebrating Muslims that I thought everybody remembered during the tailgate  bug-shuffle in Jersey City as  Twin Towers collapsed.

But I really believe Trump and his gang COUNTED on the dumb,biased, wrongheaded doofus media types to take their nastiest shot at him, as they had no recollection of the treacherous New Jersey IslamistIs' history of America hatred and planning of the first attack on the World Trade Center earlier.

There  was a lot of incredulity around on September 11, 2001. And some very sharp people, like Giuliani and Kerik, in Manhattan, were NOT surprised that there were Muslims left in the Jersey area to do anti-US  celebrating. In most sophisticated nations, that would have been no residuum of Islam in Jersey.

NEVER FORGET !!! The banners shouted. I have a special file on my root drive entitled "NEVER FORGET".

But a lot of folks just rather not preoccupy themselves with their nation's security, when it involves suspecting evil of  "neighbors".

Some neighbors! 

When highly placed "leaders" reassured us that "Islam is a religion of peace", my beloved Betts, made one of her  last prescient perusals: "Looks like they are makers of  PIECES to me."

So now, with the shamed and embarrassed big time media haggling over how many Jersey Muslims danced on the rooftops, we are presented by Breitbart of the new media with nine (9 !) points that seal Trump's  revenge over his attackers. 

You can READ THAT HERE!

Maybe I am just a romantic at heart, but I enjoy believing that like him or not, Donald Trump put one over on the juvenile drive-bys who like mules, have no yesterday's and no tomorrows.

But  Americans, who are all  "Heartland"  when they see the flag or hear the Anthem, have better memories than the illiterate pipsqueaks  who believe they control our destiny with their fears.

As we keep our eyes open and ears alert, we should enjoy---yes, and promote--- every pratfall of the clueless, panicked cockroaches.

Gee, THANKS....I Guess...

 

Despite the fact that all indications point to the demise of Thanksgiving Day as a holiday of any importance save serving as an introduction to a period of insane and savage commercial activity, it seems that gratitude itself should be recognized as a threatened concept in 2015, so here goes:

I'm grateful for the student athletes and other bums at the University of  Missouri for forcing out the college president because he suffered other students to look at the aforementioned cry-Bullies with squawnch-eyed appraisal while "not liking"  them. Since the aggrieved mob is an accumulation of subsidized vagrants, their "victory" is even more irrelevant than it would ordinarily be.

 

I am nostalgically reminded of my youngest son's  complaint at the dinner table about his oldest brother:  "Make him STOP !!! He's LOOKIN' at me !!!"

And shouldn't we all give thanks to the peaceful Muslims at Ottawa, Ontario Canada's hometown university for being offended by and closing down a yoga class freely offered there for 60 mobility-impaired and disabled people ?  Spokespersons for the Student Centre, where the yoga instruction has been offered for seven years, said that changing the name of the exercises from "Yoga" to "Mindful Stretching" would not satisfy the offended protestor, who complained the practice as well as the name of the exercises are both based in oppressive colonial enslavement and painful memory. What a boon these multi-offended people are ! And they are everywhere ! Aren't we lucky ?!

 

I am also  grateful for the recurrent demands by a very small minority of one-seventh   of American citizens demanding  "Reparation payments" for slavery. (Which, incidentally ended in 1863, almost exactly the same time Abraham Lincoln declared Thanksgiving a national holiday. (It was on October 3 then !) These demands always remind me that Muslims, and the Ottoman Empire across the Top of North Africa had more than one and one-half million Europeans in bonded slavery when America's first warrior after the Constitution was adopted, Stephen Decatur, ended the Reign of  Terror and enslavement by the Barbary Pirates. They held more than twice as many  European slaves  as were "owned" by US president Thomas Jefferson and  other elite Americans.

 

It is a source of much comfort and gratitude to know that most Americans surveyed (70 %) pay very little attention to the AlGorean Chicken-Little crowd of weasel- greedy frauds trying to sell the G W climate change stable sweepings 15 years after the evidence has died.   While there are pockets of ignorance here and there, most people older than the high school serfs know that most of the "scientists" who signed the original  GW scare document, had not completed their education or otherwise  qualified at the time they signed a complaint, more than 15 years ago.

Our effusive gratitude is qlso due the Mafia in the five boroughs of  New York City for daring to tell the Islamic State to dare attack the Big Apple at their FATAL  peril !  (Since the communista-wussie  De Basio has "castrated" the NYPD.

Charlie Lucky LIVES !

In a last paragraphh, let us seriously and fulsomely be thankful for honest courageous journalists wherever they are while we express hope that the number will increase as the extortionate, punitive corruption of the District of Columbia falls into proper desuetude.

Among the best are Peggy Noonan, Sharyl  Atkisson, Mark Steyn, Mark Levin, John Nolte, Ben Shapiro, Charles Krauthammer, Bill Maher, Megan Kelly, Steve Chapman, Jim Taranto, Sean Trende and the Prince of all of them, Matt Drudge.

We are ill-served by those who take pelf or praise for their perfidious prostitution of public trust in media performance.  They know who they are. 

Blood and Dither

On Monday the 16th I'm sure we all felt like punching bags, having been  buffeted and battered by visions and voice-overs and contradictory "analyses" of the sanguinary scenes from Paris.

President Obama, who on the day that the ISIS thugs massacred 129 Parisians, announced that "we now have contained ISIS" , and still would not use   the word "terrorist" or the word "jihadist" , now weakly admitted to a "setback".  Some setback !!!

Pope Francis addressed all Christians with the considered divination that "the end of the world is near..."

Vladimir Putin, after being briefly buttonholed by Obama at the G 20 summit in Turkey, dismissed the US president as " a boy-baby...a child" and vowed to rejuvenate an alliance with the United Kingdom and invited everyone else interested to join in "eradicating" jihadi terrorism, beginning right now.

Remembering Col. Ralph Peters' words when he all but predicted the exact site of the bloody ISIS Paris attack, when he also prescribed a cure for the festering malignancy of the Islamic Sstate:

"Kill them... Kill them all... Search  them out to their last hiding hole and kill them..."

Obviously, Col. Peters has read both the Qu'ran and either a history of Islam or a good unexpurgated biography of the prophet Mohammed.

Things being as they are, if I were in New Orleans, I would get up a mob and force every vessel loaded with Middle Eastern "refugees" to turn around and head back out of the Delta... PLUS the  Gulf of Mexico.

My ancient old arse has hardened, "thhickened to dross" as Robinson Jeffers once wrote.
I do not intend to "turn the other cheek"  when the future of my seven great-grandchildren is being compromised and disolved by fools.

From a very close friend in the Fort Worth Texas area, I received a missive this same Monday morning, and it aroused me as much as it shocked me so I share it here, and hope that my friend sent it to his Senator Ted Cruz also.

       "We are constantly told by the damp-diaper  PeeCee folks  that there is just a small percentage of muslims who are radical, and that the rest are "peace- loving."  Obviously they have read no histories of Islam OR, in fact the Qr'an or Haditha.
       
         "Still, a "small percentage" of  1,600,000,000 (Billion)  of the world's Mohammedans  is a considerable number. Twenty  percent would be 320 million ! (The present popu;ation of the United States.)

        "So, as   far as the rest of the "peace loving" ones are concerned, their failure to condemn amd ostracize  the "small percentage" speaks hugely and loudly. One might be persuaded that thhe Qu'ran's  message will not permit the peace-lovers to contradict their cohorts.

       "The failure of the "many" to condemn pure evil  COUILD render  them complicit as the active assassins---and therefore subject to the same response required to  eliminate the metastasis of the  cancer...."


And there we might as well turn the page  and close the cover of this chapter of our lament.  Will anyone DO anything ?  Are there, anywhere the informed and eager souls akin to those who struggled between 1776 and 1788 on this very land ? Isn't it sad that no one knows the answer to that question ? And, SICK  that some, born and fed in America reacted to the blood flow in France  by  shouting and waving banners that said, in nastier four-letter  language:

"To HELL with Paris !!! My feelings are hurt..."

Veritas, Veritas, Veritas

It just tickles me plumb to my follicles to see a courageous young reporter ask someone other than an Afrucan-American Republulican candidate for president a "GOTCHA"  question.

That is why  I keep a close watch  on James O Keefe  and  his  Project Veritas.  You should, too.

For the past few days he has been shredding  academics  at all the elite schools who are willing to "destroy" the Constitution of the United States  by slashing it, cutting it or shrredd it, since they view it as "a flawedaud  document  prepared by flawed men..."

( The first timeI heard  those  accusatory words   was when  the present  resident  of the Oval Office  " ran"  for it  in 2008.   They are uniquely   his locution  and they certainly  add weight  to the suspicion  that his secret  college transcripts  will never  support  his claim  to "constitutional law scholarship ".

O'keefe  and his  merry band of  hidden camera inquisitors   first struck  in the sacrosanct  halls  of  Cornell,  Yale  and  Vassar,  where they found   joyously eager   Ivy leaguers who    gladly   sliced ,   tore and shredded   the U.S. Constitution, physically and    gaily.
  
READ  ELABORATION  HERE

Then,  Project Veritas   headed south to North Carolina  where they  did their subversive act  on the Tar Heel state's   three  top universities  ( two of which ,  Duke and  UNC  Chapel Hill  ARE   ranked   higher  than some Ivy League colleges ) .

To the  "keepers of Title IX"  a young O'Keefe complainant  asked  that the United States Constitution  be  removed  and banned  from her dormitory because it was  " a trigger ". 

At NC State, She was graciously received and   eagerly  vindicated  by a staunch  anti- US Constitution   decision.

 At Duke ,  the instigators were  brushed off   and  dismissed .

 At Chapel Hill , It was suggested   in some very  fancy syntax,  that  the complainer  go  and have  her  head examined , so-to -speak!

This is all very exciting, rewarding and heartwarming  for this old soul .  I visited Chapel Hill   as a youngster  and wanted to go there,  but needed  to  stay closer  to an ailing  parent .

I have to admit  Ihave mixed feelings about  O'Keefe and his  Project Veritas not making  it to the Carter Center  at Emory  !

 Yet ....   

Puttin & Ice For Chicken Little

On the same day that our president said he would bypass Congress with his Hyper-Tax program to combat man-made global warming, NASA released scientific data establishing that in recent years the frozen continent of Antarctica has grown its icepack.

Farther than that, the added ice in the southern hemisphere has lowered sea levels rather than raise them as the Algoreans stridently say  we will all die, drowned in our beds by the rising oceans.

Quote:
       Antarctica is growing not shrinking, according to the latest study from NASA. Furthermore, instead of contributing to rising sea levels,
the still-very-much-frozen southern continent is actually reducing them by 0.23 mm per year.

There is no reason to believe that Obama will pay any attention to these scientists who are guilelessly  throwing monkey wrenches into his despotic machinery because he has a top level nincompoop who guides his "scientific" knowledge who does not know the difference between a clam our oyster building calcium carbonate shells and a shrimp or lobster using  chitin to form their outer "skeleton skins".

And we are even deeper Doo Doo, truth-wise than that situation portends.
So far as I can see, there is no member of the television, magazine  or fish wrapper media in the United States that does not worship at the altar of Chicken Little. All of the aforementioned have a vested  ($$$) interest in frightening the wits out of every man woman and child with apocalyptic voodoo nonsense.

The only place you can find valid scientific information on the subject of climate science is on the Internet ! My favorite site is "Watts Up With.."

And here's a clue: don't believe anything you read where they talk about "settled science".  There is very little "settled" in scientific endeavor, you see, because honest science is directed and dedicated toward disproving one's favorite theory !  THAT is what science does.

 It is quite interesting to remember that in the United Kingdom, Prince Charles believe savagely that man is destroying his home in the universe by driving automobiles and flying jumbo jets. He is a passionate Doofus on the subject. He is not a scientist.

On the other hand we have Lord Monckton and James Delingpole, both of whom have spent many years delving into the mysteries of climate all over the globe and from their daily, weekly, monthly, annual accounting of temperature fluctuations from Aukland, New Zealand to Rejkyavic Iceland, they have taken great care to uncover duplicity on the part of  scientists at East Anglia University and other venues, causing confusion in the ranks of editors, propagandists and, yes, the confused brainpan of the Heir-to-the-Throne.

Of all the records and charts, it appears that no appreciable "global warming" has taken place since just before the millennium. The Warmists call this 15-year hiatus a "pause". They also call folks who do not believe their religion is kosher (to coin a phrase) "Deniers". You will see a lot of this word in the lamestream media.

But that won't change Anarctic ice thickness and Arctic ice cap buildup.
I never thought I'd see the day, but while Obama was threatening to bypass both the court and the people's legislature in his greed and lust for power, Vladmir Putin, in Moscow branded the concept of man-made global warming "A monstrous FRAUD !" (Emphasis by Pravda and Izvestia !)

The Testtosterone Tsar is probably correct about Syria also.

Double-Standarrd Desert Dudes Breaking Free...

Saudi Arabia, if it has ever arrived at all with the heavy baggage of austere Islamism they call "Wahhabi", came late to the fraternity of nations outlawing slavery,

Almost exactly 100 years after Abraham Lincoln signed our Emancipation Proclamation, Saudi Arabia outlawed slavery in the kingdom in 1962.

But, a couple of this (21st)  century's "Crown Princes" haven't heard the Gospel yet of free handmaidens and viziers and lackeys, even though one of the most flamboyant Saudi Princes of them all was a product of a liaison between an older "Prince" and a black washerwoman slave.

The particular "brand" of Sunni Islam practiced in the Arabian kingdom (established in 1932)  is considered the most austere and punitive of all the Islamic belief systems--- all of which, though faith-based, are stratified with political, economic, military and social prescriptions and proscriptions.

For instance, a thief's hands are amputated.  A woman having sexual intercourse (agreeably or forced) out of wedlock, is beheaded. And that's just touching the
Wahhabi high spots.  Wahabi Sharia court sentences of 1,000 lashhes of flogging are tame.

So today, in Beverly Hills, California,  one Saudi prince is said by police to have a screaming bloody woman leaving his rented digs in Beverly Hills, where other
"guests" have reported His Princeness being serviced sexually by one of his male attendants while he lined up his housekeeping staff, naked, around the swimming pool.

This is all on the record. He is quoted in the UK Mail as saying: "I wanted to see some nude, naked  X*X*Y !"

Let us shift the scene to Beirut, Lebanon where authorities blocked the (escape) flight of another Saudi prince, who was headed home to Riyadh on his private
jet.  The police and news outlets say the Royal arab had two TONS of "narcotics" on board: "40 large parcels weighing more than 50 pounds each". 

Now, it is true that the strict Wahhabi Muslim rule is against the use of alcohol "and other dangerous stimulants"... But the dangerous stimulants so far as we
can find out, are not particularized.

So we have Saudi Arabian "royalty" in its roles  as flaming  "Pervert" and "Drug Smuggler", respectively flitting about the world stage and fluttering pretty close
to the heat of the Kleig lights, while a supporting cast back in the kingdom live in fear of breathing or spitting in the wrong place.

And these are, arguably our most favorite allies in the Persian Gulf region (except of course for Israel which is hated and serially defamed and dismissed by our  Doofus Secretary of State John Kerry and our president, 0.

I guess I just want somebody out there to answer two questions:

Will either of these punks disguised in pink checkerboard turbans be punished ?

By Whom ?

And, remind me how many and what charges the Saudis  are holding Western "visitors" on.

TThe media is unfairly hypocritical anout "equality" and "fairness" when i comes to a suspect "Double Standards" in race or sex.  Will that cover these Dusky Desert Dudes ?

Pub Switcheroo Shock

 

Conventional wisdom has it that a Muslim mosque is wholly devoted to teaching and reinforcing Qu'ranic discipline.

This is not so. According to the Encyclopaedia Britannica, while Mohammed's original mosque in Medina was fashioned for worship and indoctrination, modern mosques are centers with functions of military, legal, charitable, as well as religious and educational import.

 

ImaYussef prepared for the first Word Trade Center bmbing  in his New Jersey mosque ! Remember ?

Therefore the citizens of the United Kingdom AND Eire  who have been dedicated to their local "pubs"   for centuries and who are wholly and individually fond of  their "pint" are  in the throes of grief  over the disappearance of up to 20 "locals" a week throughout the United Kingdom. This will surely take on the bloody activity of self-flagellation and the wringing of hands and gnashing of teeth when they learn that their favorite Home away from Home will soon become a mosque.

It is a pattern already being realized in many small communities, where the conglomerates that own and operate most of the Inns in in the country, find it a welcome and lucrative choice to sell the  fading local pubs to Islamic communities fpr mosques.

It's no secret that the rusty and dusty-- as well as some bright and  sunlit-- rural mostly-beer drinking haunts have been money-losing propositions for nearly two decades. And when the pub has been sold by the conglomerate, its surrounding community of potential loyalists who have paid scarce attention to the demise   of  pubdom in the UK,  awaken with outrage that Radical Teetotalers are taking possession of their watering holes and that there will never again be music or singing in what was once "The Lame Horse"  or  "Biddy's Brake" or "The Unforseen" and will never again receive the benediction of sloshed and spilled "bitters" or "dark"  from  a tangle-footed tippler.

Members of my family and I have all-- back in the rowdy B-S days (before sobriety) frequented these loveliest of Britain's gifts to civilization and while I can understand  that charging two pounds sterling ($3) for a pint of the best is an understandable spur to the death of the public house, I cannot imagine Scotland, England or
either Ireland where Islamic mosques  replace the pubs with Islamic discipline and instruction in armament as well as the call of the Haditha and the Suras.

It is truly sad to an old and trustworthy pub lover to imagine Martial Arts taking over the space where many loud imprecations and poorly aimed haymakers characterized the reportage of violence at the sites.

I am not sure why, but this mind wanders to the specters of Sam Adams and John Hancock garbed in loincloth and feathers hoisting Tea chests into the drink.

Yes, indeed !  This Pub-to-Mosque thing is the way revolutions are ignited.

 

 

 

 

 

Is REAL THOUGHT Passe'

We decided to just let loose this week and tear up the tater patch as James Thurber said, without  doing any fancy directions to stories from other sources and URLs.

The reason is that my hide is itching at the bombardment of nonsensical unintended consequences piling up but being hidden by cynical and probably corrupt collectivist conduits of information.

Back when everyone was so excited about electric cars, some commonsensical Hayseed on a Nebraska farm was dismissed when he asked where the electricity
to run the electric cars was gonna come from: "Where will we plug-in instead of "fill up"? And other Rubes and Hayseeds were so impolite as to ask the
orgasmic greenies how the electricity would be produced without producing more so-called "greenhouse gases".

The greenies all assured us that WIND POWER would do the trick.

Now we know, from the great experiment in Denmark (the nation most dependent on "wind farms") that their maintenance and even the existence costs more than they produce in power.

As an aside, Denmark also invited mass migration of middle Eastern folk to "bolster" the Danish workforce.  And... Er... Um...Ah.. How is that working out
pray tell ?  Let's just say Hamlet never endured this kind of melancholy.

As a matter of fact, the Danish Parliament has done a full  reset on the ugly destructive wind farms... And there is a premium on the price of the beloved Tesla battery cars that will increase their cost to 180% of their present cost.

The effect of all this new information is twofold. First, media liars besotten with anything "green" and who have already disqualified themselves as reporters by
not telling the world that the "global warming" they love to blame on humans, has been "dormant"-- that is, stopped--- fur 13 or 18 years depending on whether
you're  looking at satellite records or icecap measurements.

Second, a lot of people will be doing rigorous thought-checking (not to be confused with scam-lie-factoid-checking of which there has been none to speak of  since Ben Bradlee turned loose Bob Woodward and Carl Bernstein in the bowels of the DC parking lots.

Then of course, one looks around with somewhat the same wild surmise that fell upon the explorers who first glimpsed the Pacific Ocean and sees...What ?

For one thing, an absence of THINKING and an abundance of FEELING...or WISHING. Stop and consider for a moment. How long has the United States of America been governed by a methodology that places wishing and hoping above arithmetic  and cognitive activity before committing $14 trillion of our children's (and their children's children's) wealth on many fantasies and sewers. The majority of those who construct "Conventional Wisdom" base it ALL on "OH, If I WANT it to happen hard enough and if  I  LIE eough, it WILL BE !

We are spoiled to believe that we have access to Dorothy Gale's red shoes that we can click together and make it happen...IT being as concrete as a marijuana
hallucination.

But don't let meget started on that...

The ideas and activities that produced the greatness that once was "the shining city on a hill" whether you saw it or not, was hard work, dependability,
consistency, trust and traditional lawful behavior by a vast majority.
All this required thought and some empathy and compassion of course, but above all, the celebration of free thought-- earnest cognitive activity-- paid off
handsomely at every tier of effort and reward.

If anybody is doing any "tough"  thinking nowadays, he or she is dismissed and smirked  about in the lockstep media and you never hear of them without hearing also some smear on their social attitudes or their religious faith. Not everything that's grist for thought and planning can be relegated to a label.

As Robert Browning said (about thought):
"A man's reach should exceed his grasp ! Or what's a Heaven for ?!"

That kind of dynamism doesn't pause or cringe at the threat that somebody's "feelings" might be hurt or offended !

And, all colors and continents of people actually survive and grope upward because they learn how to think by making mistakes and finding that thought can
heal and absolve as well as poduce Tomorrows.